Date	Topic	Chapter
8/29	Introduction to Biochemistry	1
8/31	Properties of Water	2
9/2	pH and Buffers	2 PS 1
9/5	No Class
9/7	Amino Acids	3
9/9	Peptides	3 PS 2
9/12	Sequencing peptides	3
9/14	Protein Structure	4
9/16*	Protein Structure	4 PS 3
9/19	Myoglobin	4
9/21	Hemoglobin	4
9/23	Enzyme Kinetics	5.0-5.5
9/26*	Enzyme Inhibitors	5.7, 5.8 PS 4
9/28	Allosteric Enzymes	5.9
9/30	Regulation of Enzyme Kinetics	5.10
10/3	EXAM I	(1-5.8)
10/5	Intro to Enzyme Mechanisms	6
10/7	Serine proteases	6 PS A
10/10	No Class
10/12	Other catalytic triads	6
10/15	Coenzymes, vitamins	7.0-7.6, 7.13, 7.14 PS B
10/17*	Carbohydrates	8
10/19	Carbohydrates	8 PS5 Haworth Structures
10/21	Carbohydrates	8
10/24*	ATP as energy currency	10.5, 10.6
10/26	Lipids	9 PS6
10/28	Lipids	9
10/31	EXAM II	(5.9, 5.10, 6,7,8,10)
11/2	Membranes	9
11/4	Membrane proteins	9
11/7	Fluid Mosaic Model	9
11/9	Nucleotides	19 PS7
11/11	DNA	19
11/14*	DNA	19
11/16	Restriction endonucleases, DNA polymerases	20
11/18	DNA replication	20
11/21	DNA replication	20
11/23	No Class
11/25	No Class
11/28	Repair of Damaged DNA/ DNA recombination	20
11/30	Recombinant DNA technology	23.0-23.3 PS8
12/2*	Restriction length polymorphisms	23.8-23.10
12/5	Site Directed Mutagenesis	23.12
12/7	The genetic code- an overview	22.1
12/15	EXAM  III (9:40- 11:30 am)	Part I: (9,19, 20, 22, 23) Part II: Comp.

*Quizzes Scheduled for these days (15 mins., 10 pts each).

PS: Related problem sets   for student practice (not collected).

Note: This is a tentative schedule. Exam dates and Quiz dates may change. All such changes will be announced during the regularly scheduled lecture periods.

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